June 16, 2018

The Democrats say that they are going to run Bernie against Trump in 2020. THAT makes sense, because he was second-best behind Crooked Hillary in '16, might even have gotten the nod to run vs Trump except for HRC's fixing several primaries.

So, what will such a 2020 race bring?

It will bring, in short, simply the most starkly different two candidates this Nation has EVER seen run against each other. Bernie Sanders is a Communist. Yes, a COMMUNIST, NOT A SOCIALIST (as even he claims). How do we know that? Easy: the changes he wants to make will have to be made at the point of a gun, or they won't get made. As I've said before on this blog, Socialism at the point of a gun IS Communism.

So, the Democratic party, should it win the election, plans to point guns at citizens and make them to things they otherwise wouldn't do (such as double the Income Tax of the middle class). If YOU were one of those Democrat leaders, wouldn't YOU want to take the citizens' guns away first? It could get real messy those guns were still out there.

I rest my case.

Moral of this little story?

If you don't want to be Communist, citizens of our USA, work to save your 2A. The 2A IS the only thing that will prevent Communism here.

Ammoland.com, an online ammo sales outfit, details the D-party hacks who are taking their political machete to the 2A

I could go on, but suffice it to say that using the search term "democrats attack the second amendment", a rather narrow search, I got 546,000 hits. These four are from the first page, so rank very high to Mother Google.

Okay then, the case is made: as a political party, Democrats want to abolish the R2KBA in high numbers, only 12% off a plurality, and as for that 39%-pro-abolish crowd, only slightly more, 41% say they don't want to abolish the 2A. Now, I have some righty-friends, including those I have worked with in Law enforcement, who say "tut-tut" about this rising disdain for our basic right of self-defense (a God-given right at that). When pressed, the tut-tut folks say "it doesn't matter, the constitutional process for removing an Amendment is so strict that it will never be done". Yes, the tut-tutters are correct, it won't ever be done constitutionally. Following the strict letter and intent of our Constitution is not a required political process these days, and both major political parties constantly try to fudge the very obvious intent of constitutional powers of every sort.

The present campaign to present an Initiative, Initiative Petition 43, in Oregon is such an example of fudging. It creates a prohibited category of "assault weapon", then defines "assault weapon" to include every firearm capable of self-loading (long guns AND handguns) with the possible exception of un-modifiable internal-magazine weapons like the Garand Rifle and the Mauser C-96 "broomhandle" pistol. Their definition of "assault weapon" also takes in any weapon which can internally hold 10 or more rounds of ammo, so even your great-grandfather's pump-action .22 Gallery Gun is prohibited, as are most 22 leverguns. The Petition bans all weapons magazines holding more than 10 rounds anyway. This Petition, if approved and voted in this November, would ban well over half the firearms presently sold, and likely more than half of the firearms presently in the possession of Oregon's citizens. It makes possession of banned firearms a felony, so it would make instant felons out of over a million citizens if they didn't jump through the hoops to comply (divest themselves of the guns) on a very short time schedule after the laws became effective.

Initiative Petition 44 (illegal on it's face because of the MacDonald Decision in SCOTUS which abolished this idea), would force total lockdown of all firearms in most circumstances, and project automatic secondary and even tertiary civil liability onto firearms owners if their firearms are stolen and a police report isn't filed within 24 hours (no exceptions). There aren't criminal penalties with this one, but it's a liability lawyer's bonanza, and is illegal on it's face, since the Oregon Constitution would have to be changed to meet those new liability laws, which are illegal today. This petition attacks the R2KBA in the Chicago Style. We know about Chicago Style, don't we? Except for the term as applied to pizza crust, the very expression means illegal activity and rights denial.

These two Petitions for law-making are a continuation of the process of Oregon's Socialist Government which has recently banned person-to-person transfers of firearms (transfer through an FFL is now required) and the due-process-denying ERPO law which allows pissed-off relationship partners to disarm their former significant others.

We're not alone here in Oregon. The R2KBA is under attack everywhere. A new House Bill would bring a new, much more draconian Assault Weapons Ban to the entire nation. If the "blue wave" happens in November, this Bill will become law in the House of Representatives (spit!) Since any "blue wave" is more likely to change the party control in the Senate, the AWB could go to the President in January. Would he veto it? He says no now, but remember, he is a "deal maker". If the Asses offer him something he really wants in exchange for signing it, Trump will sign it.

Okay, the Asses are in full disarmament mode. They are in full Socialist mode, and the case can be made that they really want communism, not socialism. If the USA is forced to disarm like Australia did, we will have full-on socialism at the very least, and socialism at the point of a gun (communism definition) is more likely than not. This is not a pleasant choice to face, and at least 25% of Americans would oppose this political change. Most of that 25% would oppose it violently, and we would have a hum-dinger of a Civil War. Our choice is simple now: deny the Democrats' push for removing the 2A, or go to war.

Yes, it really is that simple. Our only choices now revolve around the threshold to start that Civil War. Do we wait until the Federal Storm Troopers begin to kick in doors to seize guns, or do we pre-emptively remove the socialism from our governance now, thereby ending the threat to our rights?

The 2A was written expressly for this purpose of removing a rights-trampling government. We are pre-authorized to fight, people. The Founders wanted us to fight in these circumstances.

March 15, 2018

This would be the most severe gun-grab in the Nation, if passed. A group calling itself "Interfaith Leaders" proposes to ban all semi-automatic, or magazine-fed firearms. The article says just "Assault Rifles", but the boasting out of the Commissar Knutson's "Church" (bull. commies don't have churches) was to include all semi-autos fed by magazines.

The Initiative process, by which Commissar Knutson proposes to enact this law, is operated by the State of Oregon, so...(my Facebook Post)

My answer to the "Inter-Faith Group" seeking to ban all semi-automatic firearms in Oregon - Here is YOUR future:

1. You have ALREADY conspired to restrict or remove an enumerated Right of the Bill of Rights. You have done that just by MEETING to discuss your ill-conceived Initiative. Legally, that means that Probable Cause might already exist for your arrest on 18 USC 242, Denial of Civil Rights under Color of Authority.

2. "Under Color of Authority" will probably have to be decided in a courtroom, but this 25-year Officer of the Circuit Court of Multnomah County believes that the "Authority" of the State of Oregon is extended willingly down to reside in those following the Initiative Process. The fact that this Initiative IS a de-jure Denial of Civil Rights cannot even be challenged.

3. Prior to the Finding that the Initiative Process DEPENDS on the Color of Authority of the State of Oregon, there is another legal facet to be perfected. That facet is the Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organization designation which will apply to the organizers, from the Chief Petitioner on down to the signature-collectors. Under any declaration that a criminal conspiracy exists (a simple True Bill from a Federal Grand Jury or a USAG's Information) the RICO process may be initiated. That process will freeze ALL the assets of the named conspirators, the financial supporters and yes, perhaps even the signers of the Petition (the instrumentality of the criminal conspiracy). A VERY wide swath can be cut by the RICO process, and it might indeed ensnare all governmental officials who had provable Notice of the Petition, were in a position to stop the approval of the Petition but didn't, and maybe even the Judge who approved the ballot title. BTW, for the uninformed, once a judgment of RICO has been rendered, the defendants may be assessed as much as treble damages, in addition to Court Costs, Attorney Fees and all such expense.

4. The final Sword of Damocles hanging over this entire legal proceeding would be Class Action. I believe that there are over two million gun owners in Oregon, and each would be entitled to join in a Class as Plaintiffs, seeking common damages. I should think that those damages would be at least $10K/Plaintiff, which would put the erstwhile gun-grabbers on the legal hook for $20 Billion dollars. Considering the VERY deep pockets of the likes of Soros, Steyer, Bloomberg and other Limousine Liberals who can be expected to empower this conspiracy via their wealth, they probably DO HAVE $20B amongst them.

Your essayist begs for many, many Shares, so someone at the top of this anti-Civil Rights cabal will get my notice. Pass this word, please!

February 23, 2018

1. Democrats lie a lot, but they are FAR better organizers than GOPes will ever be.

2. GOPes ARE just as devious as Democrats. To GOPes, "protecting the Constitution” NEVER has the vital two words, "as written" involved.

3. If your aim is more Government (all D efforts lead in that direction, plus about 50% of GOP efforts), a populace with the determination and MEANS (guns) to END government is your greatest worry, not what the Other Party says or does.

4. If you could take all 500+ congresscritters to a large room with tables, sit them down with blank paper and pens, and ask them to offer what THEIR changes to the Constitution might be, how many would turn in a sheet with one word, “NONE!" on it? 5%? 10%? on Independence Day, maybe 25%?

5. If you asked all those Congresscritters to list all the Amendments as to their support of them, AS WRITTEN, with ORIGINAL MEANINGS, how many would include the 2A on that list? Damn few.

6. Do YOU know the meaning of the 2A, AS WRITTEN? Start with the Federalist Papers. Read Federalist #29.

Nope, the Congresscritters we elect can change our Constitution the sneaky way, by writing laws that change the original Founders' meaning of Articles and Sections and Amendments. No matter the party in power, we can NEVER trust Congress to NOT change the Constitution with little pushes, and when there are enough little pushes, an original meaning gets lost.

BTW, the REAL meaning and Intent of the 2A is to enable the Citizens to REMOVE their Government if it becomes Tyrannical, and giving them the R2KBA does that nicely. ANY politician of either stripe who tells you that the 2A is about the structure of Militia, or about owning hunting guns (?????), or even about personal protection from armed criminals is WRONG, it is about REMOVING THE GOVERNMENT. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMOVE OUR GOVERNMENT! Politicians don't like that, want to obfuscate that right if not remove it entirely. since our 2A has the purpose of enabling that Right, ALL politicians who value their jobs more than their Constitution (at least 80% of them) want to alter/remove the 2A.

If the above words don't worry you, do NOT count yourself as a Patriot.

December 08, 2017

If POTUS signs HR38/HR4477, he has opened the door to gun confiscation on an almost-unlimited scale. The "Fix NICS" half of that bastard conglomeration will allow a (D) President to require BATFE to "study", then implement virtually unlimited "Categories of Prohibited Persons". The HR 4477 part of this Bill is the beginning of the end of the 2A.

Gun owners will only be "safe" from this gun-grab time-bomb as long as a Gun Rights POTUS occupies the White House, and the sad reality is that era could be over in as little as 3 years, and no more than 7 years. Under this Bill, the 2A will be the responsibility of the BATFE to "protect".

Sorry, people, Concealed Carry Reprocity will: (1) Be sued by the ten or so gun-grabber states who WILL succeed in negating it's effect and (2) subtracting the gun-grabber States, HR 38 only gives a few more states where you can't already carry with a Utah permit or which are Constitutional Carry States.

HR 38 is a only minor improvement in gun rights, but the HR 4477 part pretty much guarantees the end of the 2A as we know it on the day the next Liberal POTUS is inaugurated.

The most curious thing to me is that when the gun-grabber States go to Federal Court (and eventually, the SCOTUS), their argument will be State's Rights, and that IS a powerful argument. No, the way that the NRA SHOULD have worked this issue is to sue each gun-grabbing State for violating 18 USC 242, Denial of Civil Rights Under Color of Authority, citing the totality of all the gun-rights-restricting laws in those States. I believe that a case could have and should have been made that SCOTUS has already acted sufficiently to declare the R2KBA an Individual Right, and the USDOJ should provide an enforcement mechanism for Heller and McDonald, the landmark R2KBA cases now in place as the Law of our Land.

The NRA has won only a Pyrrhic Victory with the passage HR-38/HR-4477, and I believe the org knows that. It is now incumbent on all of we gun owners to convince POTUS Trump to veto this miscarriage of our rights.

UPDATE: 12/9/17 0030 PST: For the three NRA "defenders" who have challenged, via comments, the danger I and GOA see in HR 4477, the "Fix NICS Act of 2017", your answer lies in the over-broad definition of "Fugitive From Justice" in 18 USC 922 (g)(2). Pursuing the legal definition of "fugitive...etc" through the excellent Cornell Law site, my search fails at the word "crime", which is not further defined, so the GOA is correct when it posits that a person may become "prohibited" as to NICS acceptance to buy a firearm by nothing more than failing to pay parking tickets, and then moving from that State where those CIVIL (not CRIMINAL) violations occurred. Most jurisdictions have a "bump-up rule" which says that after a fine-payment grace period expires, the violator may be bumped up to misdemeanor charges for some form of contempt of Court for failing to pay the fines. The problem with this HR 4477 is that it sucks in the entire, faulty 18 USC 922 (g) section re: definitions, and the definition in (2) needs to be clarified with regard to an actual CRIME having occurred, specifically a FELONY crime, punishable upon conviction of one specification of charge by imprisonment of one year or more in a PENITENTIARY (not County Jail, since that is the definition of a Misdemeanor).

I was an Officer of the Court of the Multnomah County Circuit Court for 25 years. In that capacity, I was expected to, and did, take training to insure that I was at least conversant with the principles of Law as I have mentioned above in this Update. I was, and am, more than "conversant", since on many occasions, I was required to present the State's case as stated in the proper Accusatory Document (traffic ticket) before the Court without the assistance of a State's Attorney, but in full compliance with the rules of the Court as to evidence, decorum, etc.

The NRA spends a lot of my $35/year dues money schmoozing politicians to do what that org thinks is "doable", and in this case, "doable" means letting the nose of the gun-grabbing camel under the flap of the tent of our Second Amendment. HR 4477 should NOT be supported as written and "grandfathering" the faulty and overbearing 18 USC 922 (g) rule. HR 38 is a good interim step towards National Constitutional Carry, but bad language in all the "Brady"-related Bills has to be corrected before any more of the 2A is jeopardized by the snakes in the grass which NRA is all too willing to excuse.

October 11, 2017

It's my birthday. 74 years. I'm officially a Mid-Seventies Geezer. I get my Life-Membership in the Curmudgeon Club. I can snort and sniffle at all the X,Y, Z generations and their "trending" apple-crapple (especially their Apple crap, not a fan). I'm just a bit too old to be a "Boomer", although I could probably fudge my way into that group, except I diss on THEM also. That generation was responsible for bringing us metal-thrash music. Aside from a few GREAT base players in that genre, you can put metal-thrash music where the sun don't shine. The Doors lit my fire. Aretha Franklin made musical love to me. Steely Dan lit my fire. All music since has been a Royal Scam.

I put up with a lot of different politicians in these 74 years. The first President I read of regularly in the paper was Ike, who had just WON a War for the USA. We don't even try to WIN wars nowadays, we just fight them to some point of supposed advantage, then we quit without vanquishing anyone. The next President I really RESPECTED after Ike was Ronnie Reagan. I was an ace B52 nuclear bombardier during his Admin. Stationed at March AFB for the first three years of Ronnie, his E-4 Airborne Command Post aircraft would fly in and take up so much space, and his Staff used up so many Alert Vehicles that we had to be restricted to the Molehole while he was at his rancho down on the coast, but I didn't mind that, he was a great Commander In Chief to work for. I got a tour on the big bird once. It was VERY secret then.

I had two full careers in these 74 years. My Sociable Seguridad statement from 2003, the year I last worked for a paycheck, said that I had 47 years of full-time SSA credits. I served in the USAF for 22, half on Active Duty and half in the Reserves. I had 25 years as a beat cop on the mean streets, but in the days I worked those streets, the police commanders were interested in RESULTS, not PeeCee attitude. I couldn't do that job today. Crooks are still crooks, and you don't keep your community safe from them by mollycoddling them and "understanding" them, you find Probable Cause that they committed crimes and you take them to JAIL. The police game isn't played that way anymore, and you won't last as a cop nowadays without subscribing to the Chief's (or Sheriff's) political correctness dogma. Summing these two up, the new Chief is a BLM supporter who removed 25+ years of a database which tracked the street thugs as her first policy in her new office. Sheriff Reese is a major gun-banner who has sucked up Bloomberg's bucks. End of discussion on THOSE two. Good effing luck, Portland!

I have a new full-time job now. I am the full-time caregiver for my sweet wife of forty years, who will meet her Jesus in the not-distant future. We have a big house, so trying to keep it clean and her in a civilized condition is a full-time job with overtime every day for me. It's my duty, my God gave me this Duty when I made my Marriage Vows on February 7, 1977.

I have always done my duty as given to me. I see no reason to change that habit now, Praise God.

October 08, 2017

Watching the morning news in the 10am Eastern time segment on Fox. I like Maria Bartiromo, she spiels it out in plain English. Her interviews are clean and crisp and she doesn't talk over her guests like the big evening names do.

Maria was passing along some news out of Vegas. It seems that the MVPD is getting tired of their investigation into the mass-murders, and we know this because they are using a standard, but tried and true Homicide Detective's ploy to segue towards the end of their work. Problem is, they haven't established motive, so now I hear the three ugliest, most dreaded words:

"Undiagnosed mental illness"

Okay, I can hear you say it now, my peeps: "If all the leads turn up nothing, then undiagnosed mental illness must explain it, sir."

Two problems: that gives HUGE new hope to the mavens of Gun-Grabbing that they can maybe pass a bill that further restricts the rights our 2A gives us to keep and bear arms, AND it's a false statement to begin with. If you Vegas gumshoes haven't found the motive yet, could it possibly be because you haven't thought hard enough about the case, and you haven't thought hard enough because your world outlook is too restricted?

In my first instance above, I refer you to the Virginia Tech murders of a few years back. Out of that case, our ever-protective (NOT!) NRA spun their Rolodexes, made their calls and sold us the idea that OMG, un-documented Mental Illness had to be cause to restrict gun rights. We bought off on that and lost some gun rights (mostly for veterans and who gives a rip about veterans, right?) but we also lost some medical privacy, and nobody talks about that. Now comes Vegas, so we are about to be led further down the garden path into that thicket of gun-grabbing thorn-bushes. Now it's un-diagnosed Mental Illness. Think about that for a moment.

Is writing a gun law dealing with un-diagnosed Mental Illness a gun-grabber's blank check, or WHAT! How far from that Bill would it be to "2A only applies if you pass a mental-health examination"? If you said that is a small gap that can easily be overcome, take the rest of this class period off, you've passed the test.

October 05, 2017

Look, I don't give a rip about bump-fire stocks. I wouldn't have one if you gave it to me gratis. Like Uncle says, like PawPaw says, their sole purpose seems to be turning ammo money into gunsmoke rapidly. They are NOT useful for delivering anything but areal fires, and they don't do that accurately enough, either. My range bans them, along with Full Auto because of the "spray and pray" aspect of their use.

If my gun club did not REQUIRE NRA membership as a condition of Club Membership, the NRA wouldn't have had a dime of my money for the past eight years or so. The last useful thing I got from them was the RSO course. I will now appeal to the Board of Directors of my club to either dump the NRA entirely, or at least let us substitute either GOA or JPFO as orgs we can belong to for demonstration of our pro-2A bona-fides..

September 26, 2017

Jews for Protection of Firearms Ownership cites this "study", which debunks itself on the rule of statistical insignificance. The study's pushers (yes, anti-gun scammers are just like drug pushers, so we call them that here) survey Maryland's population, only 3.5# of the males there come from rural areas, and guess what the "study" concludes? It concludes that EEvil Gunzz are to blame for most male suicides in Maryland! Anyone drawing that conclusion from those facts should be publicly exposed as Charlatans, and thank God we have JFPO to do that.

I looked into the American Public Health Association, because as a kid, I remember my dad belonged to that org. Dad was a Doctor and diplomate of the Harvard School of Public Health. When I opened APHA's front page, the "issues" it addresses as a group appeared to be right out of a Democratic Party Talking Points briefing or a stump speech by a (D) Mayoral candidate for Baltimore, MD. (Human-caused Global Warming is a HEALTH problem?). Next, I looked for Bloomberg's ugly footprints in this rose-garden, and sure enough, I found some. Michael Bloomberg, the Daddy Warbucks of anti-2A politics, bought into the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Baltimore, MD) years ago just to lend "Authenticity" (read: pump anti-gun beeEss into his politics) to his anti-2A work.

So, another debunked anti-gun "scientific study" for which any dumb schmuck with a plugged-up nose could find the stink of Bloomberg on. Not fake news, but not really news, either. ALL of these "studies" have been engineered to give fake authenticity to anti-gun propaganda. Go over to Joe's Place, he will have many, many more listed over there. Between Joe and JPFO sleuthing around the the lairs of the anti-gunners, they just can't hide.

There IS real news here though, news which supports the debunking that JPFO did. For this news, you need a bit more education than the Democrats would give you. You need some actual study in the history of Philosophy. That's not hard to find, it is a freshman or sophomore-level course at almost every college and university. You can probably take it at your local Community College for $120 or so. After you've had that course or it's equivalent in self-study, you will find that discussions of suicide MUST involve studying Philosophy. Academically, and the Left is nothing if not "Academic", right? (Karl Marx said so, so it must be so, right?), the subject of suicide is ALWAYS philosophical, and most philosophies are against it, most religions, too.

Why does society fight the idea of self-destruction so hard? Simple: they always have. How did such anti-suicide policy get ingrained in Judeo-Christian society so deeply? Simple! It's numbers. When times are hard, and they ALWAYS were hard in the Olden Days, despair at the current life's status one finds one's self in was very common. To prevent society from collapsing of low numbers, Judeo-Christian leaders formulated TWO diktats: first, "Go forth and Multiply" (Book of Genesis 1:28 {KJV}) The second diktat is that one's body belongs to God, therefore, we lack the right to destroy it:

(1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV) [19] Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; [20] you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. We are not our own. It is up to God when we die not us. It is hard to argue that a person who kills himself is honoring God with his body.) This last quote is via a very good source, Behind the Badge, btw.

Some philosophical codes don't go as far as saying your body belongs only to God, though. The Bushido code, for one. It was the behavioral code of requirements for the Samurai class of ancient Japan. This code DID include women, btw, so get lost with your feminist cant, ladies. The Bushido Code had a place where suicide was MANDATORY, and that was if you failed it's basic tenets, your military superior could order you to take your own life (Seppuku). I read the Bushido code, never subscribed to all of it. Some of my married-into-family had Samurai roots though, so I got to hear tales of the Bushido Code around the dinner table.

I subscribe to a simple Warrior's code, and yes, I'm a warrior so I can do that. In my Warrior Code, I get to choose the time and place of my own death. Me, Myself and I are the only ones responsible OR empowered for that. As a Warrior should, I have contemplated what conditions I would have to be in to choose to end my life. I KNOW when I would do that, and I only will know when and until that point comes, if it ever does. To give you salacious readers some respite, let me just say that I'm nowhere near that point, as old and decrepit as I might be, I soldier on and suffer through it all.

Did I just digress? No, I just put my literary spear in the belly of ALL these "suicide studies", the VAST majority of which are from simpletons regurgitating ancient philosophy, to say something nice about them. There is NOTHING nice to say about the anti-2A people, they are simply wannabe dictators, and our Constitution AND our Warrior Codes all tell us that those folks are Enemies of our State. If you actually read all my above screed, you KNOW that suicide is not about guns, it's about personal choices.

June 09, 2017

This action shows just how badly the authority of the Left side of Government can be abused.

Situation: a rally by pro-Trump groups was planned for 6-4-17 on Federal property (Terry Shrunk Plaza, Portland), and the Looney Lefty Mayor tried to cancel it, found he couldn't do that, so he sent his cops to cordon off the Federal Park (only one small city Block). The cops apparently were under orders to "stop and frisk" everyone going into the Plaza, and they did that, seizing a LARGE number of things from people. Some obviously WERE makeshift weapons (home-made spears), most were questionable (walking sticks and the like), and some were ordinary things that people would have as they stroll in public, such as pocket folding knives. It seems that the cops overlooked several Constitutional guarantees at their display of force:

Police are required to issue a Property Report, filed under a Police File Number, for EVERY item which they seize under ANY circumstance. No such reports have been found for this large number of seizures. The cops DID Tweet photos, more of a brag than a report.

Cops are supposed to follow the law. There is NO law on the books that I am aware of which authorized then to declare any sort of "weapon-free zone" at the perimeter of the Terry Shrunk Plaza. A "State of Emergency" had NOT been declared.

The Police have let themselves in for HUGE Civil Liability, as there WERE injuries from fights there which the cops (1) did not prevent and (2) disarmed folks of items which they might have used in their own defense.

The cops may have exceeded their authority so far as to be personally criminally liable for Denial of Civil Rights under Color of Authority (18USC242 et seq).

Who, among the spokespeople for Freedom in this area are going to call for a Civil Rights Investigation? Denial of Civil Rights as a leftist political strategy gains strength by the day around here, but has been practiced by the Lefty Looney Leaders of Portland for years. For example, about six years ago, during Rose Festival Week, I navigated my small yacht up the Willamette River towards the Riverplace Marina, where I had rented a berth for several days. As I approached the downtown area on my voyage from the Multnomah Channel Yacht Club, I stopped at the blockade under the Broadway Bridge to be searched. I had 2 concealable weapons on my boat, allowed by law due to my status as a retired Peace Officer of this State, and I told the Federal Homeland Security cop on the River Patrol boat that. I was refused navigation upriver past that point. I turned around and berthed at the nearby River Patrol station, and had an River Patrol officer of my acquaintance put my sidearms in his locker. I went back to the blockade, was inspected and passed along (in an escorted convoy, no less) to go upriver past the moored warships of the US and Canadian Navies (to which my 38-caliber Ruger and Kel-Tec P3AT was no threat, since they had sailors topsides manning 20mm and 50-caliber defensive weapons and there was a "red-line" Exclusion Zone in effect around the ships). BTW, my boat is large enough to qualify as a "Home" under Oregon Law, so any weapons aboard M/V Lofoten Girl cannot be removed without a Search Warrant, properly approved by a Judge. None of that mattered to the anti-gun Portland City Hall, though.